Subject: dalapi & dahiwi of the berkshires<br/>
Date: Jul 03, 2005 @ 03:28<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-604697981">after another & far longer intermission<br/>
the berkshire perfection ensemble try <br/>
which was last heard from 5 weeks ago in message 17833<br/>
when 19 out of the 44 tripoints in this extraordinary<br/>
county had been completed class a<br/>
& 8 remained incompletely tried & 17 completely<br/>
untried <br/>
resumed this morning exactly where it had left off<br/>
with<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; dalapi<br/>
&gt; aka dalton lanesborough pittsfield<br/>
&gt;<br/>
 </span></blockquote><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4704546&e=648265&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4704546&e=648265&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; looks like a 240 foot cake walk<br/>
 </span></blockquote>when you may recall my wheels joined my feet & shoes<br/>
in giving out simultaneously <br/>
just as i reached the rest area indicated on lapi a<br/>
mile or 2 west of the target area<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; reference map<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/index.html">http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/index.html</a><br/>
<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>after hitting my normal stride by missing my turn into<br/>
gulf road on the first pass<br/>
i quickly realized the mistake & turned back to catch<br/>
it on the second<br/>
<br/>
& soon after the road surface turned to dirt &<br/>
potholes <br/>
i recognized the topological feature the road is named<br/>
for gliding by<br/>
& began searching intensively at that point for any<br/>
sign of the expected lapi & dapi town line crossings<br/>
<br/>
but before i had noticed anything more promising or<br/>
suggestive than an old signless signpost <br/>
i already reached a hikers parking area situated just<br/>
where gulf road crosses the appalachian trail a few<br/>
hundred feet into dalton<br/>
<br/>
after turning about there <br/>
i returned to the signless post & discovered at its<br/>
foot a little dapi rock<br/>
aha<br/>
& a perfectly promising dapi blaze line heading north<br/>
into the woods<br/>
to serve as a guide for my little cake walk<br/>
<br/>
& a mossy moist sponge cake walk it was too<br/>
but soon culminated in quadricolored success<br/>
with festoonery of crimson orange yellow & pink <br/>
as is all too faintly suggested by the first photo<br/>
attachment<br/>
<br/>
so score 20<br/>
& we are back in business <br/>
<br/>
oops i mean pleasure or leisure of course<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but what next<br/>
<br/>
for tho it may have seemed an obvious & necessary<br/>
place to resume the overall perfection try<br/>
my continuing with dalapi directly wasnt at all a<br/>
foregone conclusion<br/>
but was actually one of several possibilities i was<br/>
juggling as i made my way north in the morning<br/>
& it had in fact only reemerged on my screen<br/>
organically<br/>
as a consequence of needing to hit the walmart again<br/>
in coltsville before doing anything else today<br/>
<br/>
& having already abandoned in message 17808 any last<br/>
pretensions i may once have had to an orderly<br/>
progression<br/>
i had been keenly aware all morning that i was now<br/>
free to cherry pick my next try for the first time <br/>
& had in fact decided long before & without hesitation<br/>
that it would be the delightfully appealing <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; dahiwi<br/>
&gt; aka dalton hinsdale windsor<br/>
&gt;<br/>
 </span></blockquote><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4705679&e=654883&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4705679&e=654883&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; appears to be near the foot of wahconah falls<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/wahf.htm">http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/wahf.htm</a><br/>
&gt; likely just to the right of the above pic<br/>
&gt; which also suggests the 675 foot descent from the<br/>
&gt; road<br/>
&gt; will be easy<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>& indeed after a few more wrong turns<br/>
it was an easy drive over & up <br/>
& an easy walk down to the falls<br/>
which were crowded with bathers & other holiday<br/>
celebrants<br/>
<br/>
but the tripoint was initially elusive<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the topo suggests the marker should be in plain sight<br/>
directly above the left bank within view of the falls<br/>
but it did not pop out at me as expected<br/>
<br/>
only after clambering all up & down both banks &<br/>
scouring the target area carefully did it occur to me<br/>
to climb high enough to find the monument from above<br/>
for it was standing in plain sight but set back a<br/>
short ways <br/>
atop a ledge that had hidden it from my view at brook<br/>
level<br/>
<br/>
wahconah falls is the blurry white diagonal area<br/>
behind the monument in the second photo attachment<br/>
<br/>
the state park pic must have been taken with a faster<br/>
camera<br/>
<br/>
this is the first tripoint i have seen or heard of<br/>
that is in earshot or eyeshot of a waterfall<br/>
<br/>
score 21<br/>
<br/>
& well you can imagine i was already on a roll again<br/>
with that<br/>
but the day too was waxing warm & soporific & buggy<br/>
so i decided to go for one more simple try <br/>
& hopefully make a quick hat trick out of it<br/>
by making my way back to dapiwa<br/>
aka dalton pittsfield washington<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697259&e=647958&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697259&e=647958&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
where i had previously aborted almost without having<br/>
begun the try<br/>
in message 17781<br/>
<br/>
today as i barreled up the road that leads toward the<br/>
trailhead<br/>
i noticed how all the yards on the east side of the<br/>
street backed up against the forested dapi line<br/>
which i then decided to try to use as a guideline to<br/>
follow for another quarter of a mile into the woods<br/>
from the jumpoff at the end of the road<br/>
<br/>
it seemed a sensible plan <br/>
& tho there was no blaze line or anything to follow<br/>
i also gauged that the sun was in what seemed like<br/>
just the right position to use as a guide<br/>
<br/>
but my measured bushwhack across the stream & up the<br/>
hill toward the target turned up nothing but some more<br/>
seemingly random blazes<br/>
of which the berkshires seem particularly loaded for<br/>
some reason<br/>
<br/>
& after i scoured the area a while & finally made my<br/>
way back to the car <br/>
i found that the sun had seemed to move too far & too<br/>
fast to have actually been an accurate guide for that<br/>
try<br/>
& that the elusiveness of the tripoint was therefore<br/>
probably caused by my having misread the sun earlier &<br/>
thus adopted the wrong bearing<br/>
<br/>
a retry was clearly called for<br/>
but not immediately<br/>
since i was also more than ready to call it a day<br/>
except <br/>
while so conveniently in the neighborhood<br/>
i was extremely curious to take another peek & try at<br/>
the sunken rock of hapiri<br/>
aka hancock pittsfield richmond<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697584&e=636670&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697584&e=636670&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
especially since a recent dry spell had reduced all<br/>
the local streams to well within their beds<br/>
<br/>
i found the pond several feet below the top of the<br/>
beaver dam & still draining thru it<br/>
but there was still no sign of the promised rock top<br/>
either<br/>
<br/>
i waded out several feet from the reduced shoreline &<br/>
poked around the mucky bottom as far as i dared to<br/>
venture out into the quick mud<br/>
still without success<br/>
but covered enough area to feel fairly confident that<br/>
i had at least attained what i would have called a<br/>
class b visit if i hadnt known there was actually a<br/>
rock waiting to be found there class a<br/>
<br/>
so i resolved to let the level keep falling & to<br/>
return again with the necessary flotation & a probing<br/>
iron<br/>
<br/>
shades of the manhvt mud turtle<br/>
except it is a most enjoyable & secluded place to<br/>
spend a warm day<br/>
so i am looking forward to relaxing there again soon<br/>
<br/>
can i claim the point in any sense<br/>
i wondered<br/>
<br/>
normally i would say so & would call it a hat trick or<br/>
multihood <br/>
as well as a score of 22 now<br/>
or halfway to perfection as it were<br/>
but the 44 special rocks of the berkshire perfection<br/>
ensemble dont admit of any such compromise<br/>
<br/>
so i leave off again til my next outing with a score<br/>
of <br/>
21 complete & 8 incomplete & 15 untried<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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